Melville Portal

Melville Portal JP, DL (31 July 1819 24 January 1904)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician from Hampshire.

Career

Portal was awarded an M.A. degree by the University of Oxford in 1844.[2] He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for North Hampshire at a by-election in April 1849, following the resignation of the Conservative MP Sir William Heathcote.[3] He was re-elected unopposed[4] in 1852[5] at a sparsely attended hustings in Winchester,[6] and retired from the House of Commons at the 1857 general election.[4]

Portal was appointed in December 1852 as a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire,[7] and by 1863 he was also a Justice of the Peace (JP) for the county.[8] He was nominated as High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1861[9][10] and in 1862,[11] and was appointed to the office in 1863,[12] when his address was given as Laverstoke House, Mitcheldever Station.[13]

Personal life

The son of John Portal of Freefolk Priors, Hampshire and his wife Elizabeth Drummond, in 1855 Portal married Lady Charlotte Elliot[14] (died 1899), the first child of the 2nd Earl of Minto.[15] The couple had at least four children, including Sir Gerald Herbert Portal (18581894), and Katherine Charlotte Portal (18661917).[15] Sir Gerald was a rapidly promoted young diplomat, whose career in Africa led to him contracting malaria, and he died of typhoid in London on 25 January 1894.[14] An older son died in Africa in 1892 or 1893, and the third son was Alaraic William John Portal, an officer in the Royal Navy.[14]

References

  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
  2. "University Intelligence". The Times. London. 25 October 1844. pp. 7, col B.
  3. The London Gazette: no. 20967. p. 1204. 13 April 1849. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  4. 1 2 Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 393. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  5. The London Gazette: no. 21345. p. 2130. 3 August 1852. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  6. "The General Election". The Times. London. 14 July 1852. p. 2.
  7. The London Gazette: no. 21390. p. 3611. 10 December 1852. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  8. "Prison Discipline And The Hampshire County Magistrates". The Times. London. 6 January 1863. pp. 9, col D.
  9. The London Gazette: no. 22565. p. 4564. 15 November 1861. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  10. "Nomination Of Sheriffs". The Times. London. 13 November 1861. pp. 6, col F.
  11. "Nomination Of Sheriffs". The Times. London. 13 November 1862. pp. 7, col F.
  12. "Sheriffs For 1863". The Times. London. 4 February 1863. pp. 6, col F.
  13. The London Gazette: no. 22704. p. 573. 3 February 1863. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  14. 1 2 3 "Death Of Sir Gerald Portal". The Times. London. 26 January 1894. pp. 3, col F.
  15. 1 2 Lundy, Darryl. "Lady Charlotte Mary Elliot". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 14 November 2010.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir William Heathcote, Bt
Charles Shaw-Lefevre
Member of Parliament for North Hampshire
1849 – 1857
With: Charles Shaw-Lefevre
Succeeded by
William Wither Beach
George Sclater-Booth


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